Re: [PATCH] Fix Python crash on getprop deallocation

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Hi Luca,

On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 at 03:38, Luca Weiss <luca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Fatal Python error: none_dealloc: deallocating None
> Python runtime state: finalizing (tstate=0x000055c9bac70920)
>
> Current thread 0x00007fbe34e47740 (most recent call first):
>   <no Python frame>
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> This is caused by a missing Py_INCREF on the returned Py_None, as
> demonstrated e.g. in https://github.com/mythosil/swig-python-incref or
> described at https://edcjones.tripod.com/refcount.html ("Remember to
> INCREF Py_None!")
>
> A PoC for triggering this crash is uploaded to
> https://github.com/z3ntu/pylibfdt-crash .
> With this patch applied to pylibfdt the crash does not happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Weiss <luca@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Unrelated but I've noticed that in this file the indentation is quite
> mixed between spaces and tabs. This patch tries to keep to the style in
> the lines around.
>
>  pylibfdt/libfdt.i | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

My original idea was to use tabs for the C code (to match the libfdt
style) and spaces for the Python code (for PEP8). Looking at it now,
that idea has not continued and I'm not even sure it was a good idea.

Regards,
Simon



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